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At the 4/18/2019 SARA business meeting the membership approved a proposal to convert the club’s 442.275 repeater to a multi-mode digital repeater. Once the conversion is complete, the repeater will no longer support analog FM, but will support: DMR (on Brandmeister) YSF (Yaesu System Fusion) DSTAR P25 In addition to being inline with many of […]
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Summit County EMA is holding a Skywarn training on Tuesday, April 16th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm with registration starting at 6:00pm. The class will be taught virtually by a Cleveland NWS staff member to the audience at the American Red Cross. The address is 501 W. Market St. in Akron across from Tangier Restaurant. Pre-registration
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The annual Ohio ARES VHF SImplex Contest is almost here. Saturday January 12th 2019 from 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM, help Ohio ARES map out simplex capabilities and have fun at the same time! Even if you’re not normally a contester, this is fun and easy event for anyone to get involved with. Anyone with
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A new addition to the N8CD HT family prompted me to write another review. I wasn’t planning on doing another review in the series after #8, but the radio manufacturers keep producing products that I can’t resist. The Kenwood TH-D74A has about every tech feature you could want in a radio (with the possible exception
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The Yaesu VX-8DR is a lot of radio in a small package. First – some background on “dual-band”, or even tri-band and quad-band mean. There are 3 meanings for “dual-band” radio in amateur radio specifications, and it isn’t usually clear from the brochure which definition is used for a radio. A true dual/tri/quad bander can
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